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From PSHE at Key Stages 3 and 4, initial guidance for schools, page 20, (QCA, 2000)
'PSHE is concerned with helping pupils prepare for the range of roles they will fulfil in life. Careers education and guidance (CEG) is concerned with helping pupils develop their role as learners and workers. In curriculum terms, therefore, CEG is a component of PSHE and cannot be considered in isolation from it. When individuals make choices about their learning and work, these impact on other roles, for example as consumers and as members of families. In choosing a job, a person is often choosing a lifestyle.
Schools have a statutory duty to provide careers education in Years 9,10 and 11. When reviewing this requirement and how to implement the non-statutory Framework for PSHE, schools will wish to organize their curricula so that teaching in these two areas is mutually reinforcing. Indeed, many schools organize their provision of CEG within timetabled PSHE programmes. The DfEE will be providing a booklet indicating the links between the Framework for PSHE and the learning outcomes for careers education and guidance published by QCA.
The new 'Connexions' service will aim to develop more structural support currently provided by the careers service, the youth services and others.'
From PSHE and Citizenship at Key Stages 1 and 2, initial guidance for schools, page 21 (QCA, 2000)
'Career-related learning has been developing in many primary schools for some time, but they may not have referred to the learning in these terms. Career-related learning often forms part of the school's work in helping children to understand what happens in the community beyond school, the roles that people fulfil, and the relevance of learning to their future lives. It helps to lay the foundations for future careers education and guidance work and work-related learning in secondary schools, and for many children it can open doors to a wider range of future roles. It can help to ensure that pupils make choices on the basis of well-informed and positive ideas on learning and work.'
Schools have a statutory duty to provide careers education in Years 9,10 and 11, as part of the PHSE programme.
For QCA guidance on citizenship, PSHE and CEG, download guidance material from the QCA web site.
Evaluation of effectiveness, criteria for success.
How does career education link with citizenship?
CEG helps pupils prepare for their role as learners and workers. Natural links exist between CEG and citizenship e.g. rights and responsibilities. CEG provides a curriculum context for citizenship, e.g. the impact of the closure of one industry on a community.
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